The South Pole Telescope has released its most precise image yet of the universe’s first light—the cosmic microwave background. This new ground-based data confirms cosmic expansion anomalies and ...

Some physicists think our reality is a kind of cosmic hologram, with space, time, and gravity as manifestations of a ...

A vast filament of gas stretching across the cosmos may help solve the mystery of the Universe’s missing matter. Astronomers ...

The first ever space telescope, the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 (OAO-2), was launched into the low Earth orbit in ...

Machine learning can help tighten constraints on the overarchingFor almost as long as humans have existed, we have been ...

In an extraordinary leap forward for astrophysics, astronomers have achieved a momentous breakthrough with the first direct ...

Matter in intergalactic space is not randomly scattered - it forms a vast network of filamentary structures that make up the ...

Scientists have revealed the first images from the world's largest digital camera, the Vera C Rubin Observatory.

Scientists have revealed the first images from the world's largest digital camera, the Vera C Rubin Observatory.

Astronomical images not only look beautiful, they also provide a wealth of information. What's behind it and what ...

Best-Yet ‘Baby Pictures’ of the Universe Unveiled The final results from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope offer the sharpest, most sensitive view of the early cosmos that anyone has ever seen ...

If our 13.8 billion-year-old cosmos could be considered middle-aged, researchers note these new images captured around its 380,000th birthday represent a snapshot of the universe as a newborn.